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The last thing Harper Anderson wants to do is move out of state with her father and fix up a decrepit Victorian home in the middle of nowhere, Ohio. To make matters worse, the bumps in the night are more than just the old floorboards settling. Join Harper's stay at Newman's Manor by following a series of journal entries as she tries to prove what she is witnessing is more than just tricks of the mind. The Secrets That We Keep is heart thumping psychological thriller that keeps you guessing at every turn. Perfect for those who enjoy Secret Window, Crimson Peak or anything with ghosts!

Kael and his friends thought they’d walked away from the table. The dice were packed up, the campaign was over, and real life was supposed to return to normal. But something followed them back. Phones flicker with phantom quest markers. Shadows crawl where they shouldn’t. A laugh echoes in empty hallways. And the deeper Kael looks, the more he realizes the world around him is bending — rules of physics, rules of family, even the rules of trust.

He had craved the little light that was left inside her. She craved the darkness inside him. Death would've been a blessing. Death would've been a cure. But with him at her heels, he wanted to give her a reason. A single reason. To breathe another day. A killer. A maniac. A hunter. Cold and empty. Soulless. Cursed to live among the living. Who craves to live. Haunted. Tortured. Scarred. Full of darkness, with cracks of light. Forced to live with the weight of the world on her shoulders. Who craves to die. Two unfortunate souls, who have no right to meet. Spins a tale full of pain. Death.

Someone killed Susan Wheeler by breaking her neck, hid her body in a country lane and made off with the content of her purse–a vulgar enough crime, on the surface. By what is a masterpiece of actual and deductive sleuthing, two young men prove that it was motivated by long-dead scandals and smothered hatreds, pin the crime on a proper person among a number of suspects, and finally run their quarry to earth in the network of streets that border on the London docks. One of the most beautifully knit and exciting novels by J.S. Fletcher.

More than 100 years after nuclear war, nature has reclaimed much of the world that was destroyed. The Missouri Ozarks have returned to what they once were: a vast wilderness of woodlands, lakes, and caves. Some of the descendants of those who survived the war have since emerged from their shelters to establish subsistence-based communities, relying on the traditions of their ancestors. Others remain in the highly sophisticated underground facilities into which their forefathers retreated when the bombs fell. Those underground live with technologies lost to the world above, including sentinels.

Da en af de lokale mænd dør, formentlig af et slangebid, bliver der brug for Claras viden. Hun bliver rystet, da ligsynet afslører en højere koncentration af slangegift i den afdødes krop, end der nogensinde ville forekomme efter et enkelt slangebid. Alt tyder på, at han er blevet myrdet, men hvem kunne have adgang til så meget slangegift? Og hvorfor slå ihjel på en så grusom måde?

Den unge kriminalbetjent Lacey Flint har altid været fascineret af myten om Jack the Ripper, Englands mest berygtede seriemorder, som i 1800-tallets London skamferede og myrdede en række prostituerede. Hun har dog aldrig selv arbejdet på en mordsag, før hun en aften gør det chokerende fund af en døende kvinde. Kvinden er blevet frygteligt lemlæstet med en kniv og udånder i Laceys arme. Da Lacey kort tid efter hører om et brev, som angiveligt er afsendt af morderen, løber det hende koldt ned ad ryggen.

When Harper Deveraugh flies to San Francisco to visit her half-brother Michael, she never expects her world to turn upside down. She’s barely off the plane before she meets Laken Howlkind—a mysterious man who seems to spark something primal in her. What Harper doesn’t know is that Laken is more than just Michael’s best friend—he’s the Alpha of the San Francisco Area werewolf pack. With Michael secretly battling terminal cancer, he has one final request: that Laken marry Harper to ensure she’s cared for after he’s gone. The last thing Harper expected was an arranged marriage to a stranger.

When their parents sail the world without them, 12-year-old twins Tabitha and Timothy are sent to the remote island of Papala, known as the "Bird Island." Great Uncle Tamhas becomes their guardian in a world as strange as the island itself. Tabitha is frustrated with the island's isolation and limited Wi-Fi, but Timothy is delighted to uncover the island’s natural secrets. The twins soon realise however, they are not the only newcomers to the island.

Florence und Alec stehen kurz vor ihrem ersten offiziellen Auftritt als Paar im Kreise der Königsfamilie. Während Davies sich um ein geeignetes Druckmittel kümmert, deckt er eine schockierende Wahrheit auf, die sein Leben komplett verändert. Können Alec und Davies sicherstellen, dass Florence vor den Mächten der Krone geschützt ist? Oder stehen sie einem übermächtigen Feind gegenüber, der unaufhaltsam ist?

AD 1044. All eyes are on the marriage of Beatrix de Hautville to Armand de Mortain. The union could calm a tense political situation in Normandy: a young, illegitimate nobleman called William is vying for the ducal throne, and making plenty of enemies along the way.

Grumpy billionaire seeking wife…must enjoy sudden trips to Paris, love poems, sparkly diamonds and being pampered. That’s what the headline in the newspaper read right next to the photo of my best friend’s brother, billionaire tycoon Wes Carrington. His handsome, arrogant face is now plastered all over the City with women calling him morning, noon, and night seeking dates.

In this thought-provoking book, the author delves into the complex and intricate factors that have shaped the American psyche throughout history through the lens of the Black American experience. A key emphasis of the book is the importance of understanding the constitution's impact on American society, particularly as it pertains to systemic and institutional issues of injustice that persist today.

Uh, hi. I’m Oisin. Not to brag, but I’ve written a few fantasy novels that boast only the most scathing of reviews. This one’s different, though. It happened to me. Well, me and a few other people you meet in the first few chapters. Eedee (she owns the comic book store I work at) and I were just having fun making our own graphic novel, and bam! Suddenly we and a couple shoppers are sucked into another world that’s technically a version of Earth. Swords, sorcery, the whole deal. Oh, and it’s the one we were just drawing and writing about.

Ninety years ago, the dwarves of the Dragonhammer Clan were driven from their ancestral home. Now, a small band from a new generation, raised in exile among humans, are mounting a venture to retake it. These young dwarves aren't fools. They don't have an army. They don't even know the old ways. Led by the young heir to the clan, Genrik Dragonhammer, they seek to carve out a foothold within a nearby mountain, rebuild the clan's strength, and eventually drive out the goblins that have settled in the city their ancestors built.

Born the heir of a master woodcutter in a queendom defined by guilds and matrilineal inheritance, nonbinary Sorin can't quite seem to find their place. At seventeen, an opportunity to attend an alchemical guild fair and secure an apprenticeship with the queen's alchemist is just within reach. But on the day of the fair, Sorin's mother goes missing, along with the Queen and hundreds of guild masters, forcing Sorin into a woodcutting inheritance they never wanted.

When her life as a New York City attorney becomes an unbearable moral burden, Lois Golden packs up her teenage daughter Janet and heads to rural Vermont to fulfill her childhood dream of owning a small town inn. However, this inn holds a wealth of dark secrets, full of deceit, death, and horrifying experiments that have left an undeniable mark of evil. When a vengeful spirit emerges, forcing all within the inn to experience their greatest fears, will Lois be able to fight back and salvage her dream from the nightmare it has become?

From S.J. Day, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bared to You Years ago, Evangeline Hollis spent a blistering night with a darkly seductive man she can't forget. But that evening of addictive pleasure has become a disaster of biblical proportions: She's been branded with the Mark of...

Luke Sackville’s Ethics Team is stretched to breaking point across several investigations, little realising that one man links them all. Narcissistic, cunning and ruthless, Mr Killjoy is reaping the rewards of cybercrime, and is indifferent to the fact that his victims are being driven to despair and beyond. Luke connects the dots and begins to home in, but as the villain is cornered he strikes out and none of the team is safe.

The planet Ardulum has died and taken with it every last andal tree, and piece of andal cellulose tech—dissolving the Alpha Plane down to lightspeed travel and archaic communication. Yet Ardulum’s consciousness still lives, unwelcome, inside Atalant’s body. But two consciousnesses cannot share one host—especially not when one is a former planet. Amidst the remains of a shattered galaxy, Guard Four and the Keft scrapper Bell chance a return to the Neek homeworld, where andal is still rumored to grow. A stable forest of andal could power the Cell-Tal technology to save Eld Atalant's life.